Native American Regions

Match the following

• Desert Southwest

• Southwest portion of North America

• Pacific Northwest

• Between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River

• The Plains

• From the northern West coast to the Rocky Mountains

• Eastern Woodlands

• East of the Mississippi and Southeast Canada

Match the following

• The Plains

• Nez Perce, Haida, Chinook, and Makah

• Desert Southwest

• Adena and Hopewell as well as the Creek, Illinois, Iroquois, Shawnee, and Seminole

• Eastern Woodland

• Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, and Lakota

• Pacific Northwest

• Hopewell and Anasazi as well as the Yuma, Pima, Mojave, Navajo, and Apache

Match the following

• Eastern Woodland

• Not a lot of forests and fresh water streams, but plenty of buffalo

• Desert Southwest

• mineral wealth, deserts, few rivers, inconsistent rain

• The Plains

• reliable environment with ocean life, forests, and salmon from rivers

• Pacific Northwest

• lots of rainfall, lakes, rivers, streams, and thick forests

Match the following

• Pacific Northwest

• Adobe (clay) dwellings, sometimes built into the side of cliffs to beat the heat

• Desert Southwest

• Big houses/long houses-made of trees, could fit multiple families

• The Plains

• wigwams made of wattle and daub with bark or clay roofs

• Eastern Woodland

• tipis (teepees) made of wooden poles and buffalo hide

Match the following

• Eastern Woodland

• Ate maize, beans, squash, and peppers

  The Apache eventually raised sheep and goats.

• Desert Southwest

• ate lots of salmon, but also whales, sea otters, and seals

• The Plains

• Some tribes ate maize, squash and beans, but mostly they ate bison (~buffalo)

• Pacific Northwest

• hunted and ate deer, rabbit, squirrel

  had gardens that grew the 3 sisters (beans, squash, and maize)

Match the following

• Pacific Northwest

• Believe, as most do, in the sacredness of nature

  Sundance - 4-8 days during the solstice to thank the spirits

• The Plains

• Believed in the "Great Spirit." Most tribes have an animal centered creation story

• Desert Southwest

• Believed in animism = the universe and all objects have souls or spirits

  Kachina dolls were used to

• Eastern Woodland

• Totem Poles tell story of ancestors and important people

  Spirits in all things

Match the following

• The Plains

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• Pacific Northwest

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• Desert Southwest

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• Eastern Woodland

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